glabels: Ready For Prime Time

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a review of glabels. It's still in beta status, but it's ready for prime time now. It knows hundreds of predefined label formats and allows you to design your own templates for custom work. Barcodes, images, just about anything but MP3 tracks can be printed on them. glabels is destined to become one of the most popular native apps for Linux." If you need harder-core barcode support, the excellent kbarcode would probably make a good complement. (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.)

Comments

Standard in Open Office

[Anonymous Coward]

wouldnt it make more sense to package a label printing facility as part of Open Office as apposed to a standalone application ?

great idea that *nix has this now but these sorts of things have been standard in MSWord for a long time, do i really need to open a specific application (and all the hassle of saving/re-opening) just to print a label or envelope ?

Underpromise, Overdeliver

[Farley Mullet]

glabels is destined to become one of the most popular native apps for Linux.

This seems like a nice little application, but I don't think you do it any favours by hyping it up so much. Great label-making program, check; most popular native application for Linux? That might be a bit of a stretch

Barcodes? MP3's? time for some self promotion!

[Flat Feet Pete]

I made this to play my mp3's. Description from the site:

There's two main parts.

• A set of business-card-sized cards that represent the music album collection.
• A webcam in a harness that the card can be slotted into.

Each card is printed sideways with album cover art, artist, title and track listing. A barcode on both sides of the card uniquely identifies it. When inserted the PC analyzes the image to pick out the barcode. The barcode is linked to a playlist, which is played when the card is inserted.

Works like a charm

[Starky]

There are many /.ers that are wondering what the big deal is. The big deal is that this is one of those simple applications you don't realize you need until you need it. Then you realize that you really need it.

After I recently finished my Ph.D., I put together over 70 job market packets. For both appearances and efficiency, I needed to generate labels by the dozen.

Much to my surprise, there was an ebuild of gLabels for Gentoo. Even more to my surprise, even though it's in beta, it worked flawlessly. The interface was so well done that I never even needed to look for help files.

Kudos to the gLabels team!